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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
Politician
Statesman
Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
Iron Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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Journalism
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Persons
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Politics are not a science based on logic they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
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The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
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Politics is no exact science.
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Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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